A fourth version of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by the rotating all-star cast known as Band Aid is in the works, this time to fight Ebola. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Bono, Ellie Goulding, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Underworld, Sinead O'Connor, Bastille, and Elbow will participate in the… More »

Continuing in the documentary style of their "New York Morning" video, Manchester rock band Elbow have put together a short, oddly poetic paean to speedway motorcycle racing, soundtracked by "Charge" off of the band's recent LP, The Take Off And Landing Of Everything. The video focuses on young rider Craig Cook and former champio… More »

Elbow stopped by Fallon on Friday for an emotional performance of "New York Morning" from their new album The Take Off And Landing Of Everything. Frontman Guy Garvey and keyboardist Craig Potter also recorded a really cool video discussing how they wrote the song, how they based the piano line to represent the different height… More »

In keeping with my newfound traditions of saying nice things about Gwar in the intros to these posts, the music-related video I enjoyed most this week was this, the YouTube commercial for Gwar's Gwar-B-Q festival, which includes one of Dave Brockie's final performances under all that latex. Gwar-B-Q goes down 8/16 in Richmond,… More »

Former "new Radiohead" candidates Elbow have carved a long career out of mournful and ornate rock balladry; it's amazing that it took them this long to title a song "My Sad Captains." But they finally did it on the recent The Take Off And Landing Of Everything, and now that song has a video featuring… More »

It's not a proper music video, so it's not on this list, but Yours Truly's series of videos from the Young Turks new years festival in Tulum, Mexico is the greatest marriage of music and moving images that I've seen this week. These clips -- Caroline Polachek singing opera while standing knee-deep i… More »

English rockers Elbow have put together a short documentary/music video chronicling the story of Dennis and Lois, a couple who grew up in the New York music scene in the heyday of CBGB and the Ramones. The video serves as a tribute to old New York: "This was where the music was, and this wa… More »

The moodily ambitious Manchester band Elbow have announced plans to release their sixth album The Take Off And Landing Of Everything early this year; it follows 2011's Build A Rocket Boys! Frontman Guy Garvey has named an intriguing set of key influences: space-rock, prog, Primal Scream, Spiritualized. I don't know about the other… More »

This year's shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Album of the Year was announced in London this morning. A group of industry experts will select the winner, who will be announced in a ceremony hosted by Jools Holland 9/6. Winner also gets £20k. (Last year's winner was the xx.) Here are your nominees:… More »

Beyoncé doesn't normally play festivals, but by all accounts she killed it at Worth Farm last night. After her Glasto headline performance the star told BBC she was so nervous playing for 175,000 people she sent Chris Martin her setlist to approve in advance. Of course between solo hits, Destiny's Child favorites, and a medley… More »

"Lippy Kids" was the working title for Elbow's fifth studio album. They changed it to Build A Rocket Boys!, but this song uses the original title, as you can see from this live in-the-studio video. It was shot at Blueprint Studios, where they recorded the whole album with producer/keyboard player Craig Potter. According to the… More »

The reciprocal part of Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back project moves forward with Elbow's cover of "Mercy Street" (from Gabriel's 1986 album So). Says Elbow's Guy Garvey: "We chose to cover 'Mercy Street' because it's such an amazing song, It's my favorite from So. Also because there's a real tenderness and understanding in the lyrics. More »

When APW presented its inaugural festival last year, we weren't alone in taking issue with the experience: lack of food options, a fair but generally recycled undercard which played more like "a bunch of bands opening for Radiohead," an extremely restricted/overpriced drink situation designed to keep people sober and make them feel uncomfortable by… More »

Last night Elbow played a headlining show in LA to get prepped for a run of dates supporting Coldplay. Being one of very few dates where they'll have their own openers, the band handpicked the undercard, Guy Garvey coming out before each set to personally introduce early acts Jesca Hoop and LA's Mellowdrone. Check… More »

War Child's latest covers compilation is shaping up to be the second best charity album of the year. Which is not that impressive since it's only January, but Heroes is still something to be excited about. Over the last few weeks we've highlighted contributions from Lily Allen, TV… More »

Lots of artists you enjoy are covering lots of other artists you enjoy for another tribute album organized by and benefitting War Child, the "network of independent organisations, working across the world to help children affected by war." The pairings are mostly logical -- the Hold Steady covering the Boss, TV On The… More »

Bloomberg reports Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid pulled out a sorta longshot win over the likes of Burial, Radiohead (four time nominees, still no win), and the Last Shadow Puppets for this year's Merc Prize, meaning that is going to be one hot torrent this week. More »

We've posted and enjoyed a number of videos from Elbow's fourth album, Mercury-nominatedThe Seldom Seen Kid, but it seems like the UK quintet remains seldom seen (kill me) in the State. Their new single "The Bones Of You" ostensibly contains a bit of George Gershwin's "Summertime." Maybe that's what they need for… More »

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Last spring the world got a brief preview of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the secret Wu-Tang Clan album that will be released in a limited edition of 1 and auctioned off to the highest bidder. That might be all most of us hear from the project for the rest of our… More »

Kanye West debuted his much-leaked single "All Day" at the Brit Awards last week, and now a studio version has emerged. The So Help Me God song's bouncy, bass-heavy beat also features verses from Allan Kingdom and Theophilus London, and a massive "Monster"/"Black Skinhead"-style riff slices through the track from time… More »

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was one of the defining jams of summer 2012, but it was the sort of song that screamed "one-hit wonder" from the rooftops. Well, that's not going to be the case. Today, Jepsen comes back with a new single called "I Really Like You," and it is absolute top-shelf… More »

Mumford & Sons have announced the details of their third full-length, Wilder Mind, and it's bound to sound pretty different from the rest of the folk-rock group's output. As As they told Rolling Stone, the band went completely electric for the new album, ditching the folkier elements that catapulted them to fame. "We felt… More »

Kanye West has announced the title of his new album. It will be called So Help Me God, and that's presumably the cover art up above. It appears to be a 13th Century monastic symbol for the Virgin Mary according to this conspiracy theory website Google Image Search turned up. We were just More »